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e is the Means
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Raging Elements.
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Mrs. C. Case.
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Baxter's Antichrist
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J . P . &Iarquand.
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a' &~ d hings.
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Carey.
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in Affliction. D S. Morris. .........
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illat if one died for all, then were (not refer ring hortation :oo plain to be misunderstood. Bu t
I,o second deat h) all dead?"
Again Paul says the idea s+:ems to ge t into some minds t.hat the
in Heb.
9: 27, b L
and as it is ap pointed (not as Bible is a book of mysteries, and cannot b e
un-
i.t is going bo be appointed, b u t
i s
unt o mall derstood
by
"common people;" tha t it has a
once to die, and after thi s the judgment."
W e
cispiritual meaninan and tha t which appears on
read there is a death after th e judgment, and it the face of it is not its true meaning. That is a
is called a death tor, or on account of, sin,
and
mista ker~ dea: for, instead, the Bibl e purports t,o
i s also called the second death. Question-What be God's -.
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to arousa to action. trao rdin ary potency to excite combustion, to
tracts, and
fe e d f ire, and to c arry i t over long distances.
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W ha t can ou r meteorologisLs, physicists, chemT
work? Look
1 &a, and other scientists tel l us about thi s?
of help.
L e t 1 Giyen these coincident circumstances, are th ere
eb and Josh ua for any relations between them, and does the at -
by donat ions for its I mosphere at t imes get into a condition to make
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are at man- I ~t extremely susceptible to fire, or to give it an
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unusual power to excite and feed combustion ?
they are not
) If the re be any such influences-evenif the re be
go and only a suspicion of them-and if th is season,
arid th at you will with its long list of hurricane s, severe storms,
and stren,pthen l and disastrous forest and city fires be one oi
to p r epare t em o r
corn ng
w rat , o w c t ese
preachers
aiuc
cyclones, earth quak es, and fiery trials ar c jus t
til the means j the forerunner.
other class. Wee ds /
T he P hi lade @ hia Ledger, in a recent i ssue re-
tending, bu t i f you marks upon t he la,te destructive storms and
God ill bless their
an d the weeds kept
in this matter
in your hand s are
disastrous ~o~nflagrationshat have visi ted the
world, an d ad ds by way of i oq uiry
:
Was there anything in the atmospheric con-
r some t ime pw t re-
preachers, papers dit ions at the t imes
of
these fires to give uilusual
otency to the no nsu mi~ ig lenlent ?
Th is is not
it
esked as a question t,hat can be answered, but as a
s not awakened to i t , quastion to suggest inqu iry, in i ts relations to
e in th e off ice have the extrao rdina ry atmospheric disturbauces
,
which hav e ma rked this season, anrl which, to
a distance
us some extent, characterized the period at which
1
he
Chicago f ire occurred. I n this last-
W e
an- mentioned year, and n ear a bout the ime of
on bare gro ond, UP i the Chicago calamity, there were most disastrous
God we have a
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forest and prairie fires in Minnesota and Wiscon-
of
; and intelligent persons who we re eye-
on. T ha t team is i:tnesse~ t them , in Wisconsin, testified that
hot blasts swept the country for miles in advance
the
I of th e fire ; th at ,peat luminous balls traversed
support and help on the air i ll th e afaicted distr icts; and th at nkw
ey have pulied t he flames sta rted up at considerable distances from
of the past
;
:hcz:zi? body
c.?
the conflagr:ttion. Assuming
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these statements to be true, and they have not
been questioned within onr knowledge, there
read this
paper
and
would seem to have been some thing in the air
be uzed in the Lord's of th at region, at that t ime, wh ich g a v e i t ex-
the seasons when such agencies may be poten t
in the air , then i t is a season to be on gua rd
against the beginnings of fires, whether by 'ac-
cident' or by spontaneo us combustion, or b y
the fire-cracker and roc ket-stick. Those
people are wise who do not tempt fate or under-
tak e to defy th e powers of nature.
s u c h inquiFic6 ;; \\
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LL i - 7 ~ 4u u t j
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; . e rtf t h e
Almighty is better .
Most people regard these
fearful scenes as but visitations to this ear th.
elemental dis- W e remark , however, th at instead of b elng
world, as the ac- '(visitors, the y have come to stay, and by the
i best of
evidence,
both scientific and Biblical,
to them. B ut their they will not cease their work unti l the f inal
led people to re - shak ing of the heavens and the ear th, which
des m ere dis- shall result in the removing of those things
ragin g and a furious 1 t ha t a r e shaken ,
as
of thing s th at are made,
me future disaster of th at those things which cannot be shaken may
I remain1 ' (Heb. 12 : 27).
th at are manl-
Ha ving the mind of the Spi r i t that f irst moved
s to create suspi- ( upon the chaos of matte r , and brought l ight and
wise heads, who order to natu re, we may re st assured tha t this
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e course of na tu re is
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Spirit, und er whose dispensation we now live,
,
The au thor of this 'epitaph had read J -
miah 's t i~scr iy t ion
of
t,lle death of Rachel's
children in
lrjs
th i rty- f ir s t chapter wl~ ere ie de-
clares t ,hat while in death's sta te they xer e
not.
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Jacob's children, rrhen spszk i c r rnsrr
breth ren, saia, Oue is not,, reierrin g t o Jose?';,
whcm they supposed dead (Gen. 42 : 32). They
ha d learned this idea of dea th from their father,
Jacob, who mournfully exclaimed, Joseph is
not, referr ing to h is supposed d eath (Gen.
43
:
36).
Wa s, and is not, in
Rev.
17th, describes
the beast before and while wounded to death.
I t was evidently customary in the days of patr i-
archs an d prophets to spaalr of death as a s t a t e
of temporary non-being. This old epita ph is in
str iking harmony with the above quotations.
I n
Anvell church-ya,rd, Ha rtfords hire, E ng.,
on the tombstone of Thom as M an ger is the fol-
lowing
:
That which. a b e i u g was w hat is it.,
show ?
That heing which was,
wh at i
it n~ w
To be
;utie t
'tis.is
not
to be, you
set:,;
'That
which
n o w
is
not,
shall
a
be ing
be.
In our conflicts for the hope of Iarael it is
truly cheering to read these long-ago testimonies.
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THL: owa Stat .e_Carnpmeeting s
td
commence
on the 10 th of Augus t.
See the change in the
date in the notice.
BRO.
J.
RIDLEY rit es in a:private no te of a
reccnt two month's tri p in southwe stern' Iowa,
as pleasant and result ing in good. H e sowed
the seed of tr ut h in
some new fields, and some
started for the kingdom.
ELD.GEO. W. GREEN, of Memphis, In d., re-
ports baptizing three persons a t Mu ddy F or k
church, on the 8t h inst. ,Land the re a re others
expecting to go forward in tha t ordinance eoon.
The interest therc is on the increase, and God's
name is bcing g'::rine
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D
VENT QHBI TIAN TIMBB
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hei r hearers. They ar e not endorsed by hand arlri lamps trimmed and well burning. The A t present, the
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Adventists , '(Age-to-come" folks, or anyb ody eyes of the world are upon us, and if we let our of California is at thi
else, yet having some money a n d a few sympa- light go
thefwili be lost.
the 17th of May, and
thizers
they
run
awhile.
~h~~
It
is over ten years
since I first experienced in the name of the L
have been to Ohio and Indiana and are working
the love of Chrrst, and I have attended many serve t he Lord, a n
lneetings, bu t do not re~ nem ber earing one ser- works.
Sr. M. J. Cla
westward. We are
informed
lha t
O n e
mon on the second coming of C l d s t until last preaching, relieved o
them
in
Union
Ind" few
days
winter, and that was by Eld. Mabey, at Sout h Carpenter, of Vallejo
t ha t they break
evbry Advent IXume, White side county, Ill. Thailks be
to .ha s been among us w
hurch in the lard. W e guess not. Their
H ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > ~
ing,
w e
have a little
baed of
chris-
whole w ork is proselyting. Th e Lord never
sent th em on their mission. Give them no
place, and go not near them or countenance
them.
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tians t'here who are at work in earnest, and are
letting thei r light shine; and we have prayer-
meeting every Thur sdayeve ning , which is well
att,ended, and the intere st is steadily increasing.
Fro111 Hettie
M. P
BRO.B U ~ ~ : - I
cere thank s for the re
welcome visitor, the
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% 2-good ylz:~p;;ct. f i lr
:a
grind work to he
6kmwq mxden
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done here; and may God give us all faith to be-
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